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Continue processing upon unhandled faults

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The Continue processing upon unhandled faults setting determines how the process should proceed when a fault is not caught on the enclosing scope, or handled through a local fault handler.

About this task

To configure the Continue processing upon unhandled faults setting for your BPEL process, proceed as follows:

Procedure

  1. Select one of the following types of activities:
    • invoke activity
    • human task activity
    • snippet activity
    • data map activity
  2. In the Server tab of the Properties area, configure the Continue processing upon unhandled faults field according to the following three options:
    Option Description
    Same as process Select this to match the Continue processing upon unhandled faults setting for this activity to that of the BPEL process. This default setting can be configured in the Defaults tab for the process as a whole. If you set this activity to match this default setting, then it will change should the default setting change. This is especially useful in programming situations when the Continue processing upon unhandled faults setting may need to be changed, and you don't want to have to manually modify it for each individual activity.
    No When No is chosen, and there is no fault handler defined on the enclosing scope, then the activity is put into the stopped state, and a work item for the process administrators is created so that the problem can be repaired. Potentially, this option allows you to simply pause the process to have the problem fixed. This is especially useful in a process that has been running for a long time. This setting overrides the default setting.
    Yes When Yes is selected, then in the event of a fault during process execution, the fault is sent to the fault handler of the activity's enclosing scope. If this is insufficient to deal with the fault, then it is rethrown to the next enclosing scope. If the fault reaches the outermost scope, the process will terminate. This setting overrides the default setting.

Results

The Continue processing upon unhandled faults setting is identified differently in different environments. In the modeling environment, this setting is called Continue processing upon unhandled faults. In the runtime environment, this setting is called Continue on Error. See the Continue-on-error behavior of BPEL processes and activities topic in the related link section.